The Associated Press

The AP Mobile app looks good and reads well on tablets and offers a great deal of news and video. Unfortunately, the app has a tendency to hang up and feels a little unstable. Once you’ve narrowed your location, the app compiles the day’s top headlines, sports and even “wacky” news stories right at your fingertips. Stories are presented very cleanly, but it’s easy to find pictures to expand and videos to watch alongside the text-heavy AP stories. The tablet screen is used to full effect by AP Mobile, but the app suffers from some performance issues. Sometimes videos won’t load, and the app occasionally stalls when you try to tap into a story or another tab. Those issues aside, AP Mobile presents a whole lot of news for free, and reading it on your tablet won’t make you crazy. News junkies: This one should be on your home screen. Read More

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Newspapers aren't dying. They're just being reinvented. These days, there sure are a ton of different places to find news online. Not only can it be overwhelming at times, but it can be a bit of a crapshoot, too. When you start raising the serious question of who out there you can truly rely upon for trusted reporting, though, why wouldn't you stick with the publications with the longest histories and strongest reputations? Here we list some of the best news apps for Android by some of the most trusted names in American print media. The king of old school media outlets, The New York Times for Android keeps things simple with its plain black and white, yet sleek Android app. Search news, browse categories and share your favorite articles with friends through email, Facebook or Twitter. The app supports offline reading and you can adjust the font size to your liking. Downloading the app won't cost you a cent, but a subscription is a little pricier than most at about $15 per month. Previously available exclusively for tablets, WSJ is a welcomed, brand new addition to the Android Marketplace. To gain access to news, articles, real-time market quotes or just save it all for later, you need to first register with the news giant. Just like New York Times, though, reading many of the stories in The Wall Street Journal app will cost you the price of a subscription. This one's a bit cheaper, though, as it will run you about $2 a week. Between daily news articles, sports scores and hyper local weather reports, USA Today is a well-rounded news app. Staying true to its reputation as an image-heavy news source, there's a special section just for photos and you can vote on your favorites each day. Readers can make adjustments to both the screen and columns to allow for more space. The Associated Press not only brings you breaking news stories from all corners of the globe, it also compiles top stories from more than 1,200 different newspapers. Browse articles and photos, view and customize categories, access photos and videos, and share articles with friends through your favorite social networking sites. You can also customize your home page with the categories that affect you the most. Newspapers is a catalog of all of the newspapers that print each day and it includes both domestic and international publications. The Read More

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There are many people right now who received an iPhone or iPod Touch for Christmas this year. Many of them may or may not yet know their way around iOS, the operating system that those iDevices run on. Most essential, to begin with, are the Apps. You’ve all heard the old catchphrase “There’s an App for that.” Well, that’s because there often is. Let’s take a look at some the essential free iPhone Apps (or iPad and iPod Touch). Please note that the App descriptions are as they appear on the  App Store: AOL Radio powered by CBS Radio features over 350+ free stations spanning dozens of music genres, including pop, urban, country, indie, jazz, oldies and rock. Also choose from over 150+ popular terrestrial stations across the United States from CBS Radio including The World Famous KROQ, WXRT, 1010 WINS AM, The Fan, 92.3 Now FM and more. Now with song skipping on AOL Radio stations and multitasking on supported iOS4 devices. AP Mobile news helps you keep up-to-date with what’s happening anywhere, in your hometown and across the globe. Tap Tap Revenge is a music game in the tradition of games like Rock Band, Guitar Hero or Dance Dance Revolution that puts your rhythmic skills to the test in all-new ways. Tap through the beats or shake left and right as the arrows fall. Download exclusive tracks or take on your friends in Tap Tap Revenge’s unique head-to-head two-player mode. Selected as a New York Times App of the Week, iCall is used by over 4,000,000 people worldwide. iCall is changing the way people around the globe communicate. The ultimate portable NPR experience for your iPhone or iPod Touch. Follow local and national news and listen to your favorite NPR stations wherever you are and whenever you want to. Simplify. We’re making it easier to stay in touch with all your friends ‚Äì regardless if they’re on Facebook or Google Talk, just tap and chat. We’ve also replaced the Contacts tab with type down search. When sending a new IM, just start typing and we’ll find all your contacts on your iPhone. Lifestream will let you post your status to Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and Lifestream with one tap. Now chatting with your Facebook or GTalk friends is as easy as using AIM. Get a fast, cost-efficient Web browsing experience. Use our powerful servers to compress data by up to Read More

By – Stay well informed! Read your favorite News directly on your iPad at anytime and everywhere you want. NewsPro supports offline reading, so you can read your loaded news also when you have no Internet connection. AP Mobile news helps you keep up-to-date with what’s happening anywhere, in your hometown and across the globe. When it comes to immersing yourself in a news story, look no further than the source you trust: The Washington Post. Experience our award-winning journalism on a wide range of subjects including national news, politics, opinion, business, sports, entertainment and food. Read stories from your favorite reporters, columnists and bloggers like Chris Cillizza, Eugene Robinson, Kathleen Parker, Michael Wilbon, Ezra Klein and Carolyn Hax. Stay effortlessly and elegantly informed on the subjects that matter to you with the Guardian’s highly personalisable news app. Guitar World Lick of the Day delivers a new and challenging lick every day with videos that feature amazing guitar celebrities and award-winning instructors, and tab and standard music notation for every lick. Related Posts Read More

A recent report from Teradata indicates that people are consuming more news. That's encouraging, considering print media had been given a death sentence. The news consumption, however, is taking place on social networks and mobile apps. Good thing you have that Android phone in your pocket. Here are the top apps to keep you up to date and in the know, anytime, anywhere. The New York Times was relatively quick to launch an Android app once it decided to go mobile, bringing free articles to your phone. Search news, browse through categories and share articles via email, Facebook or Twitter. The app supports offline reading and adjustable font sizes. USA Today has a well-rounded approach to news, bringing daily articles, scores, weather and more, to your Android device. Searchable and easy to use, the free app lets you mark and share your favorite articles. There's even a section for photos and USA Today Snapshots, where you can vote on your favorite images every day. AP Mobile was an early supporter of Android, bringing news to the popular mobile platform. View and customize categories, access photos and videos, and share articles with friends across the social web. The AP has another mobile app called AP Today in History, which costs 99 cents. For a custom news app, there's the recently updated World Newspapers. The free Android app lets you add newspapers to your list, making a personalized reader on your phone. There are a number of publications to choose from, spanning the globe. Search for items and build a feed to sync with Google News. Newspapers is a daily catalog of print media, spanning a number of global publications. USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and the Daily Telegraph are just a few of the titles you'll find in this app. Save newspapers to your Favorites, filter by country, and view featured articles with this free app. Reuters might not have an Android app, but that doesn't mean you can't get the news on your phone. The Thomson Reuters News Pro app delivers business articles and more, keeping you abreast of global financial news and business reports. The free app comes with an offline reading setting, as well. NubiNews collects articles from more than 20 sites, including the New York Times, Reuters and the Los Angeles Times. Free, this Android app is an easily navigated aggregator with full articles and images. NubiNews Read More

My infatuation with Evernote is not new. Evernote is my dumping ground for research ideas, quick notes, and web pages I’ve come across on the Internet and want to save for future reading — while I love Instapaper and use it daily (often to send content into Evernote), I also like knowing a page saved into Evernote is there for what passes for digital forever these days. When Evernote announced its new Trunk service on Wednesday, I was immediately skeptical and derisive. As I IM’d a friend, “Trunk? As in ‘Junk in the?’” Evernote has had an API for apps to connect to it available for a while. While the Trunk has been jokingly referred to as the Evernote App Store, that’s pretty much what it is. I don’t, however, think they are copying the Apple Store model; Trunk is more of a way to promote services that are Evernote-ready — as well as market some of its own for-pay services. You can check out Evernote-enabled apps here. I’ve found most of them stretch Evernote integration. It seems most of them consider the ability to save a photo to your iDevices Photo Library, and use Evernote to create a photo from said graphic “integrates with Evernote.” I say hogwash. I’m focusing on mobile apps here because my MacBook has become a stay-at-home computer since I got the iPad. So, my focus here is on apps I can use on my iDevice while away from my Mac. These are the ones I’ve spent some time with: Seesmic, AP Mobile, and Egretlist. is a to-do manager that integrates with Evernote and it can build lists based off your Evernote tags. If you’re project heavy, this can be a nice way to track all materials and tasks associated with it. For example, if you’re working on a research paper, you can tag in Evernote all the source material and tasks and in Egretlist, create a project based on that tag. While I love the interface, I’m not sold this is a good replacement for Cultured Code’s Things. For starters, Things is a Universal App; Egretlist isn’t. However, Egretlist will allow for cloud syncing, something Things lacks. is a social media client that integrates with Twitter and Facebook. You can have up to four accounts associated with it. I tend to over-use the Favorites feature of Twitter to mark tweets. With Seesmic, I can send Read More

My infatuation with Evernote is not new. Evernote is my dumping ground for research ideas, quick notes, and web pages I’ve come across on the Internet and want to save for future reading — while I love Instapaper and use it daily (often to send content into Evernote), I also like knowing a page saved into Evernote is there for what passes for digital forever these days. When Evernote announced its new Trunk service on Wednesday, I was immediately skeptical and derisive. As I IM’d a friend, “Trunk? As in ‘Junk in the?’” Evernote has had an API for apps to connect to it available for a while. While the Trunk has been jokingly referred to as the Evernote App Store, that’s pretty much what it is. I don’t, however, think they are copying the Apple Store model; Trunk is more of a way to promote services that are Evernote-ready — as well as market some of its own for-pay services. You can check out Evernote-enabled apps here. I’ve found most of them stretch Evernote integration. It seems most of them consider the ability to save a photo to your iDevices Photo Library, and use Evernote to create a photo from said graphic “integrates with Evernote.” I say hogwash. I’m focusing on mobile apps here because my MacBook has become a stay-at-home computer since I got the iPad. So, my focus here is on apps I can use on my iDevice while away from my Mac. These are the ones I’ve spent some time with: Seesmic, AP Mobile, and Egretlist. is a to-do manager that integrates with Evernote and it can build lists based off your Evernote tags. If you’re project heavy, this can be a nice way to track all materials and tasks associated with it. For example, if you’re working on a research paper, you can tag in Evernote all the source material and tasks and in Egretlist, create a project based on that tag. While I love the interface, I’m not sold this is a good replacement for Cultured Code’s Things. For starters, Things is a Universal App; Egretlist isn’t. However, Egretlist will allow for cloud syncing, something Things lacks. is a social media client that integrates with Twitter and Facebook. You can have up to four accounts associated with it. I tend to over-use the Favorites feature of Twitter to mark tweets. With Seesmic, I can send Read More

As someone who cares about words, I have been considering signing up for the AP Stylebook Online ($25/year, all prices listed are USD) or buying the AP Stylebook for iPhone ($24.99) but had trouble deciding which one would be the better deal. You can also pick up a printed version of the 2010 stylebook at the AP website for $18.95. (The 2009 version is available on Amazon.com for $12.89, but the 2010 stylebook is not yet available on Amazon.com as of this writing). I contacted the folks at AP and asked if I might be able to review the iPhone app and get a trial for the AP Online to compare them on the iPhone and iPad. The quick and dirty summary is: if you want access to the AP information on your iPhone frequently, without having to rely on the availability of an Internet connection, get the iPhone app. For any other use case: get the online subscription. Read on for more... Each version comes with benefits and drawbacks. The AP provides a comparison chart which illustrates some of them: only the online version is updated throughout the year; the iPhone app is updated annually, as is the printed version. However, the printed version and the iPhone app don't expire, so you can continue to use them after a year, whereas your online subscription must be renewed or else you will lose access to the stylebook and any notes that you have made. The iPhone app will run on the iPad, but it is not a universal app, meaning that you will either have to upscale it (which, as with most apps, does not look good) or run it at iPhone size on your iPad. If you have the online subscription, you can access it from any computer with a web browser, including the iPad, which works fairly well, but of course requires an Internet connection. Accessing the online version of the stylebook on your iPhone would work for very light, occasional usage, but the design is not conducive to the iPhone's small screen. It's the "universal access" part of the online subscription that won me over. I have a printed copy of the Chicago Manual of Style which always seems to be at home when I want to use it at the office, and at the office when I want to use it at home. Although the printed AP Read More